Social Media Built a Market for Sexual Violence
CNN’s revelations about rape content online are not a content moderation failure alone, but the predictable outcome of engagement-at-all-costs design.
Nicole Froio
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Nicole Froio is a Colombian-Brazilian journalist, researcher, and writer. She writes about pop culture, masculinities, work and gender, violence against women, inequality, digital cultures and books.
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